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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Another
year is about to end. I know it’s common
to do our New Year resolutions, but I want to do it differently this time.

So I won’t
think of all the things I want to change, I won’t plan the new things I want to
do, I won’t dream of the happy and beautiful days that is about to come, I
won’t make plans, I won’t commit to anything.

I won’t care
if I’ll wear the same dress or the same heels, I won’t give a shit that I can’t
do my hair and I won’t whine that I don’t have a black purse to match my outfit.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Monday, December 16, 2013

I wanted to
read this book so much, from the moment I read the synopsis. Here’s the deal:

While a woman sleeps, her mind erases everything she did that day. She will
wake up thinking that she have a whole lifetime of choices ahead of her. Memories
define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name,
your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight. And
the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. This is
Christine’s life.

Friday, December 13, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Thursday, December 12, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Friday, December 6, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Thursday, November 28, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.Well, I am a little confused if I should post on Wednesdays or Thursdays so this may be a little delayed.

Monday, November 25, 2013

If we
believe in something, if it comes out of our soul, then we must stick to it,
fight for it. I’m writing this post to remind you what you have forgotten.
Where did the sparkle go? Where is the itching urge to write, or to work? When did
the colors fade?

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

A pretty
interesting title, don’t you agree? At least if you are intrigued by monsters,
dark creatures and peculiar scientists in 1888. I was thrilled since the moment
I read the synopsis and the book itself hooked me for good.

Are you
ready for a tour in the monstrumology’s world?

These are
the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now
and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one
for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who
cursed me.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Monday, November 11, 2013

The
Redbreast is another one of Harry Hole’s stories and I’m craving to discuss it
with you. Actually this is Harry’s third story. I started reading this amazing
series from the seventh book, The Snowman, but even if I didn’t read the books
in the proper order, I did enjoy them all. Care to join me so I can share the
magic? :)

The topic of
this book is particularly interesting since Nesbo talks about the war. In 1944,
Daniel, a soldier, dies and two years later a wounded soldier wakes up in a
Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of
which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

It’s
official. I am a NaNoWriMo participant! I’ll try to write a novel in a month!
Well, how does this sound? Frankly I am terrified and in day 1, I had so many
things to do that I wrote only 634 words. I need to try harder, right? Let me
talk about it a little.

I learned
about NaNoWriMo last year, but I wasn’t ready to do something like that, so I erased
it from my mind. This year though, I felt more confident, more optimistic. Plus,
I love the challenge.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

This is
Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the
blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people
know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s
so cool to share your random thoughts.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Touching Darkness is the second book in the Midnighter
trilogy. Jessica Day knows who she is now and what she can do. Life seems
easier. Well, until she learns that someone is watching her. And not in Blue Time,
but in real time.

There are people who know about Midnighters and they
are willing to risk their lives to find them. But why? Something weird is going
on in Bixby and it’s time for the Midnighters to figure it out. Will they find the
truth about the Blue Time or they could lose one of them forever?

Friday, October 4, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Thursday, October 3, 2013

This is my first Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme
created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are
simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit
the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random
thoughts.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Recently I watched Dexter’s final episode. It was a
series I was watching for eight seasons and I was anxious to know how the story
would end. Well, if you were a fan too, you’ll know that the ending was
disappointed. For most of us anyway.

That made me thinking about endings and my mind
flooded with all the endings that stuck in my head. Until I came up with a
conclusion. We pay more attention to endings than it should.

Friday, September 27, 2013

After I read the Uglies series by WesterfeldI was eager to read something else written by
him. Then a friend told me about this series where some people have an extra
hour every day and the world freezes around them giving it’s place to another
world with monsters and secrets ...

Well, I don’t need to say that I was hooked. Join me in
a spoiler free conversation about this book.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Recently I read On Writing: A memoir of the craft,
written by Stephen King. It was a book I wanted to read for some time and I
finally put my hands on it. And it was good.

The book is divided in two parts. In the first one we
read about King’s life since he wants to show us how a writer was formed.
During this part, I learned a lot about his life and I was surprised to learn
about his alcoholism and drug addiction. But King talked about everything and I
was able to understand him. I see now that it was necessary to read all these
stuff before I moved on the next part, where he talks about writing. Because
after that part I could judge better his likes and way on writing.

Friday, September 20, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Friday, September 13, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Days of blood and starlight! Oh, how I love this
title. I was hooked even before I start reading it. It is so powerful that made
my mind go crazy. And I wasn’t wrong.

This is the second book in the Daughter of Smoke and
Bone series, and a very interesting read. Let’s talk about it. But before you
click the button take a look at the discussion on the first book, here, if you
haven’t read it yet.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Seriously, who doesn’t hate this word? Rules! It’s not
the word of course we hate –I hate, but the meaning. It is mostly because it
creates limits and traps me when all I want to do is spread my wings and fly.
But I know, there are limitations.

Hopefully not in everything. Imagination has
no limits and I’m free to create whatever I want. Well, but only if I obey the
rules. You see what is going on, right?
It’s an eternal loop and I’m spinning in the middle. But let’s take things from
the beginning. Beginning is a good place to start, I think.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Daughter of smoke and Bone. I’m sure many of you are
familiar with this title. It’s a book I wanted to read for a while and I
finally read it. It was good, maybe beyond good, it was great, but there are
some things that could have been better. At least that’s what I think. So, let’s
talk about it. What do you say?

Friday, August 30, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Friday, August 23, 2013

You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Friday, August 16, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Friday, August 2, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow. It's August already and I can't believe it. I feel like the Summer was on fast forward. I hate that. I want more Summer!Anyway, you know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The month is about to end and I hadn’t talk about any
books lately, well except than mine. So, I decided to discuss with you the
Uglies. For those who don’t know, this is a series of books, written by Scott
Westerfeld and it’s about a young girl, named Tally Youngblood and her ‘weird’
world. The story begins in Uglies, continues in Pretties, ends in Specials and
there is another story in that same world, Extras. So, join me in a discussion
about those four books, but be careful, it might get Ugly. (Just kidding, join
me. J)

Friday, July 26, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Salut from France once again. Today I was reading
Divided, trying to catch up in order to continue writing the sequel, and I decided to
share with you the first chapter. Seeing that you liked the prologue, made me
really happy, but now I’m anxious about chapter one. Will you like it? I have to
remind you that this is my first rough draft, so forgive me if everything is
not perfect. I hope you’ll enjoy this chapter too.

I am presenting you the 1st chapter of
my second book, Divided. Enjoy …

Friday, July 19, 2013

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Well, it’s summer which means everything slows down.
It’s not a rule, but I strongly believe that summers are like ‘dead’ seasons
for work. Maybe it’s the sun, the sea, the temperature, but it’s hard to do
your things. When I hear the word ‘summer’ the first thing that comes to mind
is vacations. Am I right? :) But what this means for the things we love and we
have to leave behind?

Friday, July 12, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Friday, July 5, 2013

It's Friday and here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

It’s July! I know I’ve been absent for a while, but I
had a good reason. The thing is that I was having exams for my last course at
the University. For some time now this was the only obstacle between me and
graduation and I felt like I wouldn’t get over with it.

But I can proudly say
that University is over. Some people say it’s the end of an era and in a way…
it is, but despite the education and everything that comes along with college
life, University taught me some important things about life, and that’s worth
talking.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Let’s say we have an amazing idea and we want to make it a
novel. We are happy, exciting and we want to know every little detail before we
sit down and write it. We want to make it great. We think, we plan, we take
notes, we do research and we spend countless hours just thinking about it. We
are plotting.

Friday, June 21, 2013

It's Friday and today is officially the first day of summer! Oh, I love summer! Here is another Feature and Follow.You know how it works; AlisonCan Read and Parajunkee are the hosts and every week they have a new question for us to answer.It’s a way to meet new blogs and bloggers and socialize. :) In the links above you can learn how you can join too and everything there is to know. So, go grab the button and start meeting new people!!!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Lately I’ve been writing again, which is so good. I
feel more relaxed and happier than I have in months. Despite there are
countless other things I need to do, I find some time and just sneak away to my
own universe. Where everything just feels right. For those moments noting else
counts and I need it so much. Sometimes I believe that writing is some kind of therapy,
a way to keep me focused and able to deal with everything else. I just sit and
write despite the noise, the TV, or the phone that keeps ringing.

About me

Hey, I'm Athina. I love to read and I have a special love for writing. I've written many short stories, two adventure-mystery novels (one in progress), two YA urban fantasy and I keep writing my way through life. I can't help it!
Besides reading and writing I love watching series, like The Walking Dead, Vampire diaries and Game of Thrones. I love long walks on the beach, swimming and hanging out with friends.
Well…that’s me and I believe we have a long way ahead of us.

Dark Places

I have meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It’s the Day blood. Something’s wrong with it.

How awesome are these opening lines? How can you not want to read this book and this story? When I started reading it, I thought: Okay, it can’t be better than Sharp Objects. Now, I can’t pick a favorite between the two books.

The book is written in multiple POV’s so we get a very good understanding about each character. We start with Libby and even from the start the pace is fast and right to the point. What I didn’t know but I was thrilled to find out, is that we see both future and past. Meaning that one chapter is about Libby in the present, and the next chapter is about her mom, or her brother back in 1985 a few days before the murders. It’s like this until the end. Present, Past, Present and it goes on.

Switching through time builds tension and as the developments unfold, I found myself looking forward for the next chapter, eager to know what happened in January or curious about Libby’s doings today.

Lies, false testimonies, crappy police work and complicated characters. Gillian Flynn ties them all together, leading you to a journey to Libby’s painful past and the ore painful present.

Dark Places is one of those books I wish I could forget, so I could read it all over again. Just to feel the same thrill and excitement of reading it for the first time.